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How CAN Started
Where does CAN function? How did it start? The mountaineer who founded the charity was Doug Scott. He reached over 40 Himalayan summits, including Everest and Kangchenjunga, before taking an active interest in the welfare of the people who had, in effect, brought him relative fame and fortune.
CAN therefore grew organically and is far from being an artificial construct. In fact changes are made constantly to meet all the challenges of development in the sixth poorest country of the world. Doug sees himself as facilitator, being in the fortunate position since the successful Everest South West Face climb and crawling down the Ogre with broken legs, to influence positively the move towards responsible mountain tourism and supporting mountain communities – “without even getting my hands dirty”.
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Reg. Charity No: 1067772 - Warwick Mill, Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, CA4 8RR |
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What
is CAN? (Mission Statement)
of Mike Cheyney and his Sherpa
Co-operative, Doug launched the Specialist Trekking
Co-operative (STC) in 1989. STC was born out of anger at the
dreadful conditions of labour in the trekking industry in
the country where everything was left to market forces,
where there was very little in the way of rule and
regulation and nobody to enforce them anyway. The main ethos
was simply to provide fair remuneration and adequate
conditions for not only the local, permanent staff, but also
for the porters.
This was at Ghunsa where a school was
built and a Health Post established at the request of Tej
Tamang, through the Irish mountaineer, Terry Mooney QC.